安裝packages失敗：
提示錯誤為：

package ‘****’ is not available (for R version 3.1.2) 

Solved：
使用github的安裝方式：

1. 先安裝好devtools：
   * Installing devtools Package *
   While many R packages are hosted on CRAN and can be installed using the built-in install.packages() function, there are many more packages that are hosted on GitHub but are not on CRAN. To install R packages from GitHub, we need to use the devtools R package, so let’s install it.

The devtools R package requires three system packages to be installed on the Droplet, namely libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libxml2-dev, and libssl-devc. Install these three packages:

$ sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev

Now the devtools R package can be installed. Remember that we want to install it using the same method as described above, rather than install it within an R session, because devtools should be available to all users.

R > install.packages('devtools', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')

1. 碰見問題：

> devtools::install_github(c('IRkernel/IRdisplay', 'IRkernel/IRkernel'))
Downloading GitHub repo IRkernel/[email protected]
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/IRkernel/IRdisplay/zipball/master
Installing IRdisplay
Error in
 
 if (capabilities("libcurl")) { : argument is of length zero

解決方式：

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev -y
$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev -y
$ R
...
> options(repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')
> install.packages("devtools")
> install.packages(c('repr', 'pbdZMQ', 'devtools'))
> options(download.file.method = "wget")
> install.packages('RCurl')
> devtools::install_github(c('IRkernel/IRdisplay', 'IRkernel/IRkernel'))
> IRkernel::installspec()

3.安裝packages: 比如installr

if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools'); # make sure you have Rtools installed first! if not, then run:
#install.packages('installr')
#install.Rtools()
devtools::install_github('talgalili/installr')

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